英和和英

間投詞

sweet Moses

1. (uncommon) Euphemistic form of sweet Jesus. [20th c.]
   • 1945, Jay Tobias, The Minx from Missouri: A Farce in Three Acts‎, Walter H. Baker Company, page 15:

     Sweet Moses! Hopes you ain’t plannin’ to appear in public in dat ’breviated swimmin’ suit?

   • 1994, Richard White, Jordan Freeman was My Friend‎, Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 146:

     My fingers flew to my head and felt my hair all over. Sweet Moses! There must have been a half-dozen bows knotted there.

   • 2022 June 15, Becky Harvey, Next Year in Gotham‎, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 23:

     In Judaism 101 we went over the history of the Jewish people, once a week, in one 55-minute session, for about 3 months. Did that cover everything? Sweet Moses, no.